This book provides chemical concepts as well as crucial steps for inorganic water and wastewater treatment. Examples and tools help to understand and to guide through industrial and natural water process engineering. Students in chemical and environmental engineering as well as researchers and professionals benefit from this concise and explanatory book.

• Preface 6
• Contents 8
• 1. Water chemistry fundamentals 14
• 2. Acids and bases 40
• 3. Alkalinity and acidity as tools for quantifying acid-base equilibrium and designing water and wastewater treatment processes 80
• 4. Use of alkalinity and acidity equations for quantifying phenomena in chemical/ environmental engineering and design of water 114
• 5. Equilibrium between the aqueous and gas phases and implications for water treatment processes 138
• 6. Principles of equilibrium between the aqueous and solid phases with emphasis on precipitation and dissolution of CaCO<sub>3(S 158
• 7. Computer software for calculations in the field of aquatic chemistry and water treatment processes, with an emphasis on the S 176
• 8. Water softening using the lime-soda ash softening method 192
• 9. Water stabilization and remineralization 206
• 10. Problems and solutions 226
• References 256
• Index 260